News – September 2024


  • Fortinet confirms data breach after allegedly refusing to pay ransom

    September 13, 2024

    In an announcement posted on Fortinet’s website, the company said that someone gained access to a “limited number of files” stored on its instance of an unnamed third-party cloud-based shared file drive. The files included “limited data related to a small number of Fortinet customers,” the announcement added, stating that this affects less than 0.3% of ...

  • Teenager arrested following cyber attack on Transport for London

    September 13, 2024

    A 17-year-old boy has been arrested following a cyber attack on Transport for London. Hackers may have accessed the bank details and home addresses of at least 5,000 customers, TfL admitted on Thursday. The Information Commissioner has been informed. National Crime Agency officers said they had arrested a teenager from Walsall, in the West Midlands, on ...

  • Chinese-made cargo equipment enables cyber, espionage risks in US ports

    September 12, 2024

    A year-long probe led by GOP members of two House panels found that numerous seaports around the U.S. contain technology originating from Chinese manufacturers that could enable espionage and sabotage. The study conducted by lawmakers and staff on the House Homeland Security Committee and Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party said that it was an ...

  • Scammers advertise fake AppleCare+ service via GitHub repos

    September 12, 2024

    Malwarebytes Labs researchers uncovered a malicious campaign going after Mac users looking for support or extended warranty from Apple via the AppleCare+ support plans. The perpetrators are buying Google ads to lure in their victims and redirect them to bogus pages hosted on GitHub, the developer and code repository platform owned by Microsoft. The goal of ...

  • ENBANTEC Cyber Security Conference and Exhibition will be held on 15 April 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey

    September 12, 2024

      ENBANTEC Cyber Security Conference and Exhibition will be held on 15 April 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. ENBANTEC is a global conference which is one of the most important and prestigious conferences in EMEA region with its focus on Cyber Security, IT Security, Network Security, Data Security, Cloud Security, Mobile Security, Endpoint Security and Identity and ...

  • UK elevates datacenters to critical national infrastructure status

    September 12, 2024

    From today, the UK is designating datacenters as critical national infrastructure (CNI). As a result, the sector is expected to get special government support designed to prevent negative economic impacts of IT outages like CrowdStrike’s, cyberattacks, and extreme weather events. That special support will come in the form of a dedicated CNI data infrastructure team comprised ...

  • BT spots 2,000 potential attacks on its network a second

    September 12, 2024

    Britain’s BT said it was spotting 2,000 signals of potential cyber-attacks across its network every second, as criminals were increasingly using disposable “bots” to try to evade existing blocking and security measures. The telecoms group said on Thursday that digital surveillance activity by hackers using malicious scanning “bots” was 1,200% higher in July compared to the ...

  • Business Email Compromise: The $55 Billion Scam

    September 11, 2024

    Business Email Compromise/Email Account Compromise (BEC) is a sophisticated scam that targets both businesses and individuals who perform legitimate transfer-of-funds requests. The scam is frequently carried out when an individual compromises legitimate business or personal email accounts through social engineering (PSA I-041124-PSA) or computer intrusion to conduct unauthorized transfers of funds. Often times BEC variations involve ...

  • Thousands of US medical professionals have data exposed in major data breach

    September 11, 2024

    Researchers have found a database backup belonging to Florida-based recruitment company MNA Healthcare left unsecured online, leaving the details of thousands of workers open to anyone. The company offers staffing services for healthcare workers and matches them with hospitals and organizations across nine states. The leaked information included full names, addresses, phone numbers, job titles, work ...

  • Insights on Cyber Threats Targeting Users and Enterprises in Mexico

    September 10, 2024

    Like many countries across the globe, Mexico faces a cyber threat landscape made up of a complex interplay of global and local threats, with threat actors carrying out attempted intrusions into critical sectors of Mexican society. Mexico also faces threats posed by the worldwide increase in multifaceted extortion, as ransomware and data theft continue to rise. ...